Bidspirit auction | MERCATOR, Gerard

MERCATOR, Gerard - Flandria Engraved map (38.5 x 50.5 cm), old hand-coloured, modern framed 2nd state of the 1st ovoid map of Flanders oriented towards the North Sea, that Mercator is said to have not only drawn, but also engraved. From Abraham Ortelius's 1575 ”Theatrum Orbis Terrarum”. Ref. Van den Broecke (2011) Ort75.2